Camino Primitivo

Ferreira to Melide

September 16 2023

This mornings breakfast was pretty thin, tiny orange juice, one slice of toast, and one bad tiny muffin.  It wasn't a  long day and I had some food tucked away in my bag so it was ok.  It wasn't foggy so I guess the thunder shower from last night cleared the air.  

A lot of the day was spent walking down little used back roads with almost no traffic.  Some of the crew say that the pavement is hard on their feet but not walking over the loose rocks makes the going a lot easier.  I think Bob's book had the pavement at 70%.  The sections off pavement were very nice, down canopied trails which wound over the hills and often were well graded.  

As we left Ferreira where as a friend says "it's so remote that  they are piping air into it"  and proceeded towards Melide the number of houses and small villages increased.  There were also a lot more pilgrims on the road today than in previous days.  

When we wound up in Melide my Garmin told me to go one way but I was over ruled and we proceeded up the hill.  After a lot of messing  around  we wound up in a hotel.  There was a reservation for Maureen but not for Bob and I.   After phoning Camino Ways it turns out that we are in a different hotel.  Some how it was my fault. Lesson learned follow the Garmin.  Not as new a hotel but away from the mad house of downtown Melide.  

Melide is where the French Way meets the Primitivo , and the town is absolutely packed to the gills with  French Way Pilgrims. 

Quite a day we covered 23.28 miles and had a climb of 420 meters.  This leaves us with just 50 kms to go and three days walk to cover it.  Should be easy stuff.

Terry